On 12.12.2018 18:04, Mouse wrote: >>> Why would you store pointers in integers at all? Surely the right >>> thing to do is store them as void * (for data pointers) or >>> void (*)() (for function pointers)...? >> kcov utilizes compiler instrumentation that uses low-lever, below the >> C and C++ language (or runtime), thus here it doesn't matter what's >> the exact storage type of a pointer. For simplicity of a kCov >> runtime we store the pointers as integers. > > If it's that machine-dependent, shouldn't this be on the relevant > port-* list(s), rather than tech-kern? Or am I missing something else? > It's supported probably by all GCC and Clang/LLVM backends.
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